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Is Chester making Recreational Aviation sector a political football?  

I am not privy to what is going on amongst the Alphabets - see LMH last week - but it would seem that RAAus is in the miniscule's favour and therefore in ascendancy within the Alphabet's.

The latest revelation that (the other self-professed ministerial 'canary in the coal mine') the ATSB will, when time and resources permit, provide investigatory support to the recreational alphabets in carrying out accident investigations, sounds like a proactive initiative. However I am not totally convinced that Chester doesn't have ulterior motives and this RAAus olive branch is merely a cover for political leverage in the argy bargy world of Federal vs State politics...          

Via the Oz today:

ATSB flags investigation role in recreational sector

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Ayup; once the accident/incident count gets up toward 200 per annum; may be it's time to take a hand and have the ATSB  actually do something - useful - just for a change., P7 edit::::

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Just a thought P2 fleshing out various scenarios as to why the ATSB is suddenly taking an interest in sports aviation, they were completely oblivious to it up to now.

Could it be, that the self serving autocrats at CAsA have finally realised they have raped and pillaged their way through general aviation to the point where there's not much left to justify their existence, maybe the BITR report, yet to be released contains some shocks.

As the ATSB is the bastard child of CAsA and malleable, some justification could be made via ATSB "investigations" that sports aviation is inherently unsafe and in desperate need of the hand of regulation.  

"Bing!" TA DAH, a whole new hunting ground for embuggerance opens up.

Yeah okay. As K would say back to my knitting.

Somewhat cynical but IMO very real comments from P7 & TB -

While considering what may actually be revealed in the BITRE GA report, I note the following short but disturbing paragraph under the heading of 'Aviation' in the ATSB Corporate report:

In General Aviation2, movements have decreased in certain parts of the sector – particularly flying training – which has led to an overall decrease in movements over the last 10 years. Conversely, there has been an upward variation in the accident rate. The ATSB investigates approximately 60 per cent of accidents and 30 per cent of serious incidents involving general aviation aircraft. Additionally, some of the recurring factors that feature in General Aviation accidents are included in the ATSB’s Safety
Watch priorities.

 No comment required except to say - Q/ What is the source for the ATSB's figures? - BITRE perhaps??

MTF...P2